On Thursday 05 July 2001 00:32, s wrote:
> I have some questions about this cd writing thing. (Relatively new
> to this).
>
> 1. With a cdrw, is it necessary to blank it before rewriting over
> it? (I seem to have to).
Yes--see the snswer to 2.
>
> 2. What is fixating?
>
This is closing the catalog on the disk, allowing no more writes
because the catalog is complete. Usually until this happens, only
the originating drive can read the CDRW.
> 3. What is multisession? (I kinda think this mean different
> formats on the same cd).
No it means you didn't fixate after the first session and more space
is left for writing another session. There are mixed music and data
CDs, always the product of multisession but not necessarily the only
type of multisession product.
>
> 4. How does one use a cdrw just like say a floppy or zip? (Where
> one can add a few files today, and a few more tomorrow, etc.....)
>
With linux, you can't. You can do multisesion. What you would want
instead is an optical drive or a PD drive or a DVD-RAM which can act
like a slow hard disk. There are some ways for this to happen in
windows, but no one ever rewrote cdrecord for that purpose, at least
not yet. One o my pet projects, at snails pace, is the DVD-RAM. I
have the PD working. in all its incarnations.
Civileme
> TIA,
> -s
